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Micah McCurdy
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Math, hockey, viz, apocrypha
Patrick Roy benched his top line for a whole period.
January 25, 2026 at 3:14 AM
Tangentially it is a recurring delight to me that dionysus is cognate to Dennis. Dennis the Philosopher. As we read in the precepts of Dennis....
Vital to match the colour of the silicone spatula to the dish. This is what pseudodionysus was referring to when he talks of material sympathy in the creative energy of the cosmos.
January 25, 2026 at 12:48 AM
Vital to match the colour of the silicone spatula to the dish. This is what pseudodionysus was referring to when he talks of material sympathy in the creative energy of the cosmos.
January 24, 2026 at 8:35 PM
Yesterday's games:
January 24, 2026 at 12:04 PM
Trying to measure what percentage of the motivation for jumanji 2 was "I would like the world to see my Danny devito impression". Not that I'm complaining.
January 24, 2026 at 12:10 AM
The stole belted over the parka is really something, man.
Have a larger story on this coming, but I’ve been embedded with this group, and this story from yesterday is part of what they’ve been doing in the city: religionnews.com/2026/01/22/h...
January 23, 2026 at 8:28 PM
Today I learned that cProfile doesn't profile inner functions properly, at all.
January 23, 2026 at 8:03 PM
When the Senators traded Gufavsson, his Ottawa career total was 79 goals allowed on 77.7xG faced, a net shot danger of +1.7%. He's improved since then, but even if they'd gotten that (v. ordinary) level of goaltending this season they'd be thirty goals to the good of where they are.
thinking about how Pierre Dorion should be put on trial for trading Gustavsson, a promising young goaltender, when the franchise was in a declared rebuild
January 23, 2026 at 4:54 PM
Late to it but I really Josh Doan and his new deal with Buffalo. Great young ice-tilter.
January 23, 2026 at 3:53 PM
Yesterday's games:
January 23, 2026 at 12:07 PM
Nashville not really warmed their way into this one yet.
January 23, 2026 at 1:41 AM
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given enough time every emotion can be gradually metabolized into tiredness
January 22, 2026 at 11:04 PM
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if we die, we die
January 22, 2026 at 5:55 PM
A feeling like the protagonist of "the circular ruins", I guess.
One time reading Barendregt in a cafeteria I thought too hard about alpha-conversion and had an essentially religious experience that I'd rather not repeat. Like I imagine it feels like to be Borges.
Marking DE midterms and one of the students has decided to call their function 4. As in, "Let 4 = 4(x) be defined as ..." and so on. The value of 4 is not involved, they're just using the numeral as their function symbol. I .... don't feel entirely safe.
January 22, 2026 at 4:49 PM
Capitals still haven't given Ovechkin a defensive zone shift start this season. I'm hoping he goes the whole year at this point.
January 22, 2026 at 2:46 PM
Yesterday's games:
January 22, 2026 at 11:21 AM
Man is just straight up not having a good time on the ice this year.
This is exceedingly impressive. I mean, maybe the poor guy could benefit from not playing 20 minutes a night? Is this a cry for help?
Via @hockeyviz.com
January 22, 2026 at 12:11 AM
Entirely aside from the asinine sentiment itself, it's psychologically jarring to see "PhDs" grouped with "CEOs" as similar people, and a knockout punch to see them gathered under the banner of "well-respected people".
Calling all the PhDs I know to make monumental annoyances of themselves (and honestly, who better)
January 22, 2026 at 12:04 AM
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The topography of Greenland/Kalaallit Nunaat is a perpetual fascination.
#Greenland #GIS #maps #earthart
January 21, 2026 at 4:05 PM
and how
January 21, 2026 at 3:51 PM
Yesterday's games:
January 21, 2026 at 12:41 PM
TSN broadcast just described the Blue Jackets penalty killing as their achilles heel and I must protest.
Shouldn't use 'Achilles heel' to mean 'salient weakness'. If one thing is your Achilles heel, that means that you are basically perfect at every other thing. If you have several weaknesses of which one is worst you don't have an Achilles heel. You are not Achilles. You are Bob.
January 21, 2026 at 12:36 AM
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A few more reflections from a lunchtime wander - the patterns are just amazing!

#CanaryWharf #abstract #iphone15pro #reflections
January 21, 2026 at 12:10 AM
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NOOT NOOT
For Penguin Awareness Day, a Typology of Pingu expressions.

Source: instagram.com/p/CKa390dD4TC/

Part of a 40th anniversary exhibition in Japan the other year.
January 20, 2026 at 9:22 AM
Yesterday's games:
January 20, 2026 at 11:06 AM